Josh Cole

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Josh Cole is a Kingston-based writer. He is currently writing his doctoral thesis on Canadian educational reform in the 1960s.
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DIY U: Can digital solutions save universities?

DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education

DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education

by Anya Kamenetz
(Chelsea Green,
2010;
$14.95)

In a world being radically altered by new media technologies, should the university embrace those technologies, or resist them? This is the question Anya Kamenetz explores in her new book DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education. Her answer -- in this troubling, stylistically flat and haphazardly structured book -- is an emphatic yes for a wholehearted embrace.

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